[UPDATE: There is apparently much controversy surrounding the writing and publishing of this book. The Wikipedia article on Antony Flew contains many links that both confirm and deny the controversy. Having read much of this it is hard to believe that Flew himself wrote There is a God. I’m not sure how this qualifies the […]

i haven’t thought about forgiveness as a concept for a long time. not until a recent conversation with a friend where i was challenged to define forgiveness and during the course of which it was suggested that forgiveness does not exist. i suppose the concept of forgiveness is another thing that i have taken for […]

The Pew Research Center has just released a major survey on religion in America. Findings include:

Atheist + Agnostic + “Nothing in particular” grabs the biggest increase (more than doubling in size)
Catholicism takes the biggest hit, dropping down to just under 24% (10% of the the U.S. population is “ex-Catholic”)
Only .7% of the U.S. population is […]

“When they want you to buy something
they will call you. When they want you
to die for profit they will let you know.
So, friends, every day do something
that won’t compute. Love the Lord.
Love the world. Work for nothing.
Take all that you have and be poor.
Love someone who does not deserve it.”
- Wendell Berry
See also “Christianity and […]

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the centre of the silent […]